Until it became the first Arab company to list on the NASDAQ, no one believed the Middle East could produce a world class company of any kind.
But if Google is serious about motivating its people, combating defections, and maintaining its reputation as a world class company, it must do more than round up the usual suspects.
Here is a world-class company, with a brand name that is the best in the business and which has made three-quarters of the big jets flying today.
"Together with Serono, Merck will be a world-class biotechnology company and a major player in the global pharmaceutical market, " he said.
It balked at buying Glaxo to become a world-class drugs company.
In barely 12 years, Mr. Musk has transformed SpaceX from a tiny, little-known startup with offices close to a strip mall into a world-class aerospace company that made history in late 2010 by sending the first commercially owned and operated spacecraft into orbit.
Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS) is a branded play company providing children and families around the world with a wide-range of immersive entertainment offerings based on the Company's world class brand portfolio.
For example, Alvin Ailey, the founder of the prestigious Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and Judith Jamison, the dancing legend who elevated the company to world-class status, would not have been strong and athletic enough to secure spots in the same company if transported a few decades into the future while still in their primes.
Adding Lucasfilm to Disney's portfolio of world class brands significantly enhances the company's ability to serve consumers with a broad variety of the world's highest-quality content and to create additional long-term value for our shareholders.
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However, if a company has the world class technology, it will find a receptive market in China.
The airline industry aside, the bullet points above offer a broad strategic outline for just about any industry because the customer experience is becoming pre-eminent in each and there is simply no way to deliver world-class customer experiences unless a company can capture, manage, and analyze all of the relevant data in real-time.
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But it also requires us to build world-class transportation and communications networks, so that any company can move goods and sell products all around the world as quickly and efficiently as possible.
The wholly owned Tasiast gold deposit, acquired by Kinross from Red Back Mining Inc. in 2010, is considered a world-class deposit that Paul Rollinson, company chief executive officer, is firmly backing despite the hit.
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The company is backed by world-class teams of software security experts and partners.
Lucasfilm to join company's global portfolio of world class brands including Disney, ESPN, Pixar, Marvel and ABC.
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Announced in October 2012, 3net Studios - based at both Sony Pictures headquarters in Los Angeles, CA and Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, MD - employs a team of creative personnel, utilizing the world-class technology and production expertise of the parent company's joint venture partners to produce the highest quality native 3D and 4K content available.
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We are a highly-focused international brand marketing and distribution company with a clear strategy underpinned by world class distributor management and financial processes.
One of the benefits of being a part of a truly global company is the ability to talk to world-class organizations around the globe.
The merged company will be involved in the development of two world class copper projects: Tenke Fungurume in Congo in which Lundin holds a 24% stake (Freeport McMoRan is the majority partner) and Cobre Panama which is 74% controlled by Inmet.
Today, I am announcing changes that will encourage even more collaboration between our world-class hardware, software and services teams at all levels of our company.
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Simple Audio's world-class engineering and product development teams will continue to develop and market the company's range of music streaming products from its offices in Glasgow, Scotland.
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They are building world-class businesses such as Gilt Groupe and Catchafire, an innovative for-profit company that excels in corporate and non-profit volunteer matchmaking founded by Rachael Chong.
Chung was being forced out - by his own brother, no less - of a company he had helped to build nearly from scratch into a world-class competitor over a span of 32 years.
The evolution of Patagonia into a clothing company began in the 1970s, when Chouinard then a world-class mountain climber and a designer of mountaineering equipment started importing durable rugby shirts and corduroy knickers for his climber pals to wear.
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On April 15, four Second Life property owners filed a class-action suit against Linden Lab, the online world's creator, alleging the company misled players into thinking they owned their virtual lands.
My firm, Temin and Company, a boutique management consulting firm of 12 people, is focused on providing world-class marketing and media strategy, crisis and reputation management, thought leadership, and leadership communications (speaker and media) coaching.
Now that we are about to complete a full year of operating Pfizer and Wyeth together, with our world-class team fully in place, I have concluded the time is right to turn the leadership of the company over to Ian Read.
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